According to Michael Hames book Dirty Squad, Operation Spanner was mainly to do with consensual but extremely violent sado masochism. One such act was slicing the penis of another with a scalpel.
Some of those arrested in Operation Spanner had links and were charged with offences related to child sexual abuse.
Ian Donaldson appears to have been in charge of Operation Spanner, although it seems DPP coordinated the Inquiry.
82 potential defendants were interviewed and more contacts could have been followed up.
16 were charged
The average age was 50 and jobs varied from missile designer, lawyer, civil servant, forester, care assistant for mentally disabled, 2 restauranteurs, lay preacher, former fire officer, computer operator, retired finance officer, antiques restorer, tattooist, porter, and former pig breeder.
Acts of sadomasochism occurred in Whitchurch, Pontypridd, Birmingham, Bolton, Evesham, Cambridge, London.
Men involved
- Lucas
- Johnny Atkinson had been violently raped at a childrens home as a boy
- Colin Lasky previous conviction for buggery on a boy, 5 years sentence charged with indecent photographs of a child
- Cadman – ice cream vendor access to boys aged 11/12 was his preference
- Kelly
- Wilkinson
- Grindley
- Lofthouse – Norfolk
- Christopher Zimmerli – Hampstead, Lawyer for international company
- Roland Jaggard – missile designer British Aerospace, sadist with blood interest, liked penile mutilations
- James Phippen
- Donald Anderson – charged with bestiality
Bulk of charges related to assault or bodily harm.
- Colin Lasky 5 years
- Forester and care worker 3 and half years
- computer operator and ice cream vendor involved with children, 4 and half years
- missile engineer and lay preacher 3 years
- finance officer 33 months
- pig breeder a year
- 4 suspended sentences
- one fine
- one probation
- one conditional discharge
See also Times Law Report on European Court of Human Rights Appeal Laskey, Jaggard and Brown v UK ECHR Times Law Report (Operation Spanner) [3]
See also Operation Greenlight Operation Spanner [4] Cadman, Lofthouse, Zimmerli and Lasky
Here is the Mike Hames Chapter on Operation Spanner The Dirty Squad [1]
Index of Newspaper and Journal articles on this blog [1]
Index of Court Appeals on this blog [2]
1989 Oct 10 Glasgow Herald Fifteen charged after Operation Spanner [3]
1992 Feb 21 Times Law Reports Brown, Laskey, Jaggard, Lucas, Carter, Cadman – Court of Appeal (Spanner) [6]
1993 Mar 12 Times Law Reports Brown, Lucas, Jaggard, Laskey, Carter – House of Lords (Spanner) [7]
1997 Feb 20 Times Law Report Laskey, Jaggard and Brown v UK ECHR (Operation Spanner) [4]
1997 Times Law Report Laskey, Jaggard and Brown v UK – EHCR (Spanner) [5]
all related to this post 2017 Mar 24 Cathy Fox Blog 2000 Apr 6 Michael Hames The Dirty Squad [8]
Please note that victims of abuse may be triggered by reading this information. These links are generally UK based.
- The Sanctuary for the Abused [A] has advice on how to prevent triggers.
- National Association for People Abused in Childhood [B] has a freephone helpline and has links to local support groups.
- One in Four [C]
- Havoca [D].
- Useful post on Triggers [E] from SurvivorsJustice [F] blog.
- Jim Hoppers pages on Mindfulness [G] and Meditation [H] may be useful.
- Hwaairfan blog An Indigenous Australian Approach to Healing Trauma [J]
- Survivors UK for victims and survivors of male rape or the sexual abuse of men [K]
- Voicing CSA group [L] helps arrange survivors meetings in your area
- A Prescription for me blog Various emotional support links [M]
- ShatterBoys -“Male Survivors Of Childhood Sexual Abuse Inspiring change, Through Shared Experience Whilst Building Connections…Together We Can Heal” [N]
Links
[1] 2000 Apr 6 Michael Hames The Dirty Squad https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/cka/Dirty-Squad-Michael-Hames/0316853216/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1490120494&sr=8-3&keywords=Michael+hames
[2] 2017 Mar 8 Cathy Fox Blog Heroes for Exposing Child Sexual Abuse – Part 1 – Peter McKelvie https://cathyfox.wordpress.com/2017/03/08/heroes-for-exposing-child-sexual-abuse-part-1-peter-mckelvie/
[3] 2017 Mar 24 Cathy fox Blog Laskey, Jaggard and Brown v UK ECHR Times Law Report (Operation Spanner) https://cathyfox.wordpress.com/2017/03/24/laskey-jaggard-and-brown-v-uk-echr-times-law-report-operation-spanner/
[4] Operation Greenlight Operation Spanner https://webbrain.com/brainpage/brain/0FE31538-2121-8495-33A5-86073BE95DE1/thought/918#-10156
[3] 2017 Mar 25 Cathy Fox Blog 1989 Oct 10 Glasgow Herald Fifteen charged after Operation Spanner https://cathyfox.wordpress.com/2017/03/25/glasgow-herald-10-oct-1989-fifteen-charged-after-operation-spanner/
[4] 2017 Mar 24 Cathy Fox Blog Laskey, Jaggard and Brown v UK ECHR Times Law Report 1997 Feb 20 (Operation Spanner) https://cathyfox.wordpress.com/2017/03/24/laskey-jaggard-and-brown-v-uk-echr-times-law-report-operation-spanner/
[5] 2017 Mar 24 Cathy Fox Blog Laskey, Jaggard and Brown v UK – Times Law Report 1997 EHCR (Spanner) https://cathyfox.wordpress.com/2017/03/25/laskey-jaggard-and-brown-v-uk-times-law-report-1997-ehcr-spanner/
[6] 2017 Mar 24 Cathy Fox Blog Brown, Laskey, Jaggard, Lucas, Carter, Cadman 21 February 1992 Times Law Reports Court of Appeal (Spanner) https://cathyfox.wordpress.com/2017/03/25/brown-laskey-jaggard-lucas-carter-cadman-21-february-1992-times-law-reports-court-of-appeal-spanner/
[7] 2017 Mar 24 Cathy Fox Blog Brown, Lucas, Jaggard, Laskey, Carter 12 March 1993 Times Law Reports House of Lords (Spanner) https://cathyfox.wordpress.com/2017/03/25/brown-lucas-jaggard-laskey-carter-12-march-1993-times-law-reports-house-of-lords/
[8] 2017 Mar 24 Cathy Fox Blog 2000 Apr 6 Michael Hames The Dirty Squad https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/cka/Dirty-Squad-Michael-Hames/0316853216/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1490120494&sr=8-3&keywords=Michael+hames
[A] Sanctuary for the Abused http://abusesanctuary.blogspot.co.uk/2006/07/for-survivors-coping-with-triggers-if.html
Many spiders when they unite can tie down a lion – Ethiopean Proverb
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The laws of God, the laws of man,
He may keep that will and can;
Not I: let God and man decree
Laws for themselves and not for me;
And if my ways are not as theirs
Let them mind their own affairs.
Their deeds I judge and much condemn,
Yet when did I make laws for them?
Please yourselves, say I, and they
Need only look the other way.
(A.E. Housman, Last Poems, XII)
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Flagellation
Peter J. Bräunlein
Flagellation is the act of whipping the human body by using flexible instruments such as the whip, the scourge, or cat-o’-nine-tails. Flagellation can be located in the context of law, religion, medicine, or sexual excitation. In many cases the juridical and religious aspects are indivisible, whereas sexual arousal by (self-) flagellation is a distinguished phenomenon of Western modernity. In two monotheistic traditions—Roman Catholicism and Shia Islam—self-flagellation plays a role until today.
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The Connection between Pain and Pleasure.
Pain and Pleasure
Murat Aydede
Department of Philosophy
University of British Columbia
If you look at anybody’s typical list of emotions, you won’t see pains and pleasures among
them. Indeed, even among the atypical emotions that people working on emotions
regularly cite, pains and pleasures show up only rarely. And yet, very few people will fail
to acknowledge the critical, or perhaps the essential, role pains and pleasures play in our
emotional lives. This chapter will explain the sense in which pains and pleasures are elementary forms of emotions.Let’s first distinguish pain and pleasure experiences, properly so-called, from their sources—typically, the physical objects, events, activities,etc., that cause such experiences. Smelling a rose is a pleasure, getting pricked by a rose bush thorn a pain —it is said. But it is primarily the experiences generated by these events that are said to be pleasant or painful. These experiences are mental events or episodes caused by various physical stimuli. It is harmless, in fact sometimes quite appropriate, to extend the terms to refer to such stimuli in most ordinary contexts as causes of such experiences. But here we will focus on pains and pleasures as experiences. As experiences, they are presumed to be conscious mental episodes.
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The Pleasure of Pain
Find out why one in 10of us is into S&M.
By Marianne Apostolides, published September 1, 1999
Bind my ankles with your white cotton rope so I cannot walk. Bind my wrists so I cannot push you away. Place me on the bed and wrap your rope tighter around my skin so it grips my flesh. Now I know that struggle is useless, that I must lie here and submit to your mouth and tongue and teeth, your hands and words and whims. I exist only as your object. Exposed.
Of every 10 people who reads these words, one or more has experimented with sadomasochism (S & M), which is most popular among educated, middle- and upper-middle-class men and women, according to psychologists and ethnographers who have studied the phenomenon. Charles Moser, Ph.D., M.D., of the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco, has researched S & M to learn the motivation behind it–to understand why in the world people would ask to be bound, whipped and flogged. The reasons are as surprising as they are varied.
For James, the desire became apparent when he was a child playing war games–he always hoped to be captured. “I was frightened that I was sick,” he says. But now, he adds, as a well-seasoned player on the scene, “I thank the leather gods I found this community.”
At first the scene found him. When he was at a party in college, a professor chose him. She brought him home and tied him up, told him how bad he was for having these desires, even as she fulfilled them. For the first time he felt what he had only imagined, what he had read about in every S & M book he could find.
James, a father and manager, has a Type A personality–in-control, hard-working, intelligent, demanding. His intensity is evident on his face, in his posture, in his voice. But when he plays, his eyes drift and a peaceful energy flows through him as though he had injected heroin. With each addition of pain or restraint, he stiffens slightly, then falls into a deeper calm, a deeper peace, waiting to obey his mistress. “Some people have to be tied up to be free,” he says.
As James’ experience illustrates, sadomasochism involves a highly unbalanced power relationship established through role-playing, bondage, and/or the infliction of pain. The essential component is not the pain or bondage itself, but rather the knowledge that one person has complete control over the other, deciding what that person will hear, do, taste, touch, smell and feel. We hear about men pretending to be little girls, women being bound in a leather corset, people screaming in pain with each strike of a flogger or drip of hot wax. We hear about it because it is happening in bedrooms and dungeons across the country.
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For over a century, people who engaged in bondage, beatings and humiliation for sexual pleasure were considered mentally ill. But in the 1980s, the American Psychiatric Association removed S & M as a category in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. This decision–like the decision to remove homosexuality as a category in 1973–was a big step toward the societal acceptance of people whose sexual desires aren’t traditional, or vanilla, as it’s called in S & M circles.
What’s new is that such desires are increasingly being considered normal, even healthy, as experts begin to recognize their potential psychological value. S & M, they are beginning to understand, offers a release of sexual and emotional energy that some people cannot get from traditional sex. “The satisfaction gained from S & M is something far more than sex,” explains Roy Baumeister, Ph.D., a social psychologist at Case Western Reserve University. “It can be a total emotional release.”
Although people report that they have better-than-usual sex immediately after a scene, the goal of S & M itself is not intercourse: “A good scene doesn’t end in orgasm, it ends in catharsis.”
S & M: No Longer A Pathology
“If children at [an] early age witness sexual intercourse between adults… they inevitably regard the sexual act as a sort of ill-treatment or act of subjugation: they view it, that is, in a sadistic sense.”
–Sigmund Freud, 1905
Freud was one of the first to discuss S & M on a psychological level. During the 20 years he explored the topic, his theories crossed each other to create a maze of contradictions. But he maintained one constant: S & M was pathological.
People become masochistic, Freud said, as a way of regulating their desire to sexually dominate others. The desire to submit, on the other hand, he said, arises from guilt feelings over the desire to dominate. He also argued that the desire for S & M can arise on its own when a man wants to assume the passive female role, with bondage and beating signifying being “castrated or copulated with, or giving birth.”
The view that S & M is pathological has been dismissed by the psychological community. Sexual sadism is a real problem, but it is a different phenomenon from S & M. Luc Granger, Ph.D., head of the department of psychology at the University of Montreal, created an intensive treatment program for sexual aggressors in La Macaza Prison in Quebec; he has also conducted research on the S & M community. “They are very separate populations,” he says. While S & M is the regulated exchange of power among consensual participants, sexual sadism is the derivation of pleasure from either inflicting pain or completely controlling an unwilling person.
Read more:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/articles/199909/the-pleasure-pain
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Although most SMers are somewhat flexible in which role they play in any scene, it is not uncommon for those who are used to taking orders in real life to seek the dominant role; whilst those who have some form of power within their occupation or lifestyle often seek the submissive role during play.
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Health, Safety and Enjoyment! – A Few Tips and Necessary Safety Measures for the BDSM beginner.
https://forum.davidicke.com/showpost.php?p=1063056528&postcount=360
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NEW TO BDSM AND WANT TO LEARN MORE?
Find a suitable BDSM workshop that is near to you.
https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=bdsm+worksops+for+beginners&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
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However, these are really not ideal for the majority, who may be seeking a more private and intimate exploration into BDSM, and without all the bright lights and giggling strangers who may not be sure what they themselves are looking for. Personally, I always find “professional services” to be a turn-off, as it makes the whole thing commercialised.
Heavy SM is not everyone’s cup of tea, and most SMers are more into the lighter side of play.
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Beginners Guide to Fetish Clubs
https://www.xxxpanded.com/blog/2016/03/09/beginners-guide-to-fetish-clubs/
BDSM clubs and meetings UK
https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=bdsm+clubs+and+meetings+UK&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
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Why Sado-Masochism Should Not Be Criminalised
Chris R. Tame
Libertarian Alliance (1994)
Click to access legan020.pdf
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OSHO: Let Sex Be a Playfulness
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“Lasting Marks”
Rainbow Europe ranks the United Kingdom as the fourth best country in Europe for LGBTQ rights, but things haven’t always been this good. Over 50 years have passed since sex between two men was decriminalized in England and Wales, but systemic homophobia in British legislation didn’t vanish overnight.
In his latest documentary short, Lasting Marks, director Charlie Lyne revisits an all-too-recent chapter in LGBTQ history, in which consensual BDSM lovers were humiliated and jailed in the final days of Thatcher’s Britain.
https://www.intomore.com/culture/lasting-marks-revisits-operation-spanner-and-the-institutionalized-homophobia-of-thatchers-britain-in-the-late-80s
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“The story of sixteen men put on trial for sadomasochism in the dying days of Thatcher’s Britain was told by the police, the prosecution and the tabloid press — but not by those in the dock” – Charlie Lyne
http://charlielyne.com/.
Control of the narrative is essential to deceit.
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However, the Spanner case – regardless of whether told by the police or the incarcerated victims, was only the cover story/alibi for the whole operation.
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Nevertheless, a good basic start on Operation Spanner. In order to assimilate the truth, it is absolutely necessary to begin by realising when you have been lied to.
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I shall comment on this documentary here once it has been made available.
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An admirable and long-overdue focus on the many extreme and unnecessary injustices, misrepresentations and living nightmares the spannermen had been subjected to as narrated by “Spannerman” and living legend Roland Jaggard.
A very welcome departure from the usual “official” false explanatory narratives.
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“LASTING MARKS” – A BFI award-winning and ingenious short documentary film by Charlie Lyne exposing the humiliation and prosecution of the Spannermen of the 1980’s as narrated by one of those men, Roland Jaggard.
The official narrative of the Spanner case is deconstrued through inspection of original documents.
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Charlie Lyne on Lasting Marks winning Short Film Award at London Film Festival
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https://forum.davidicke.com/showpost.php?p=1063046924&postcount=265
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The cover-up of over 100 slaughtered men is never “the butt-end of a joke”
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Nevertheless Charlie is spot-on about the “butt of a joke”, and I shall in the next week show that this was indeed the case, – and also coming directly from number 10. It may be fairly drawn out, so will be available on the DI thread.
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Here we are:
https://forum.davidicke.com/showpost.php?p=1063047750&postcount=274
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See also the ensuing and equally relevant comment:
https://forum.davidicke.com/showpost.php?p=1063048236&postcount=275
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There is however no joke involved, only intended malevolence. Discarding of the truth along with attacks on the integrity, honesty and courage of whistle-blowers and truth seekers may only be detrimental to those unable to assimilate that information, but is nevertheless expected from those commissioning such a slide show – The Guardian – whom are well described here from paragraph 6 on:
https://www.davidicke.com/article/531277/john-pilger-assange-arrest-warning-history
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“Truth does not need to be validated by ignorance.” – Jordan Maxwell.
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Truth is always self-validating.
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Here we are, the Roland Jaggard story (this is about the court case, not the operation), and was commissioned by the Guardian, no less!)
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/apr/12/lasting-marks-on-trial-for-sadomasochism-in-thatchers-britain
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The flyer at 12.41 is indeed interesting, but unfortunately only the front page is shown.
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The confusion caused by the spanner case being presented in this manner as the spanner operation (though not as falsely as in Hames’s book) is again repeated in order to attempt to preserve the cover-up of the operation – (and to which the case is a related part – but not the main thrust of the operation by any means). The confusion is essential to the success of the cover-up.
In most cases an operation would be reflected in the trial, however with operation spanner, this is not so. It has little bearing on the operation for good reason.
The temporary flooding of google links to this falsehood shall not negate the truth over time, in my opinion. A minor postponement may indeed be beneficial to a truth that many may otherwise find hard to assimilate.
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SPANNERMAN :
One of the few remaining defendants of Operation Spanner.
https://news.bme.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/pubring/people/A10101/spanner/index.html
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Operation Spanner was a multifaceted embarkation on behalf of the Crown involving many crown agencies and numerous agendas and purposes, many of which will possibly never be known; and personally I can only hope to explore and expand a mere glimpse into those driving forces and the various directions the operation had both taken and led to.
The whole truth regarding Operation Spanner may possibly never be known.
However, since the beginning, we are now aware of many surprising aspects of the operation that were previously beyond both my knowledge and my expectations. In order to grasp the various aspects of the operation, it must be understood that the operation was a six year long satanic ritual.
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The Spannermen had been caught by the Met.OPB in London proactively placing and responding to adverts in gay contact magazines, and not by Manchester Police.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JQQWfqtES5MC&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&dq=operation+spanner&source=bl&ots=1O4nTde-e1&sig=wDz-9uigKDW18hlpArVegYRaC4U&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjP-Ozw8bDWAhXJCsAKHY7DAJg4FBDoAQgvMAE#v=onepage&q=operation%20spanner&f=false
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The magazine – operated/monitored by Manchester Police for the OPB – ceased trading in 1984.
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If anyone has any questions for me alone, then please use the reply button underneath my comment, or for general sharing please use the “leave a reply” box at bottom of page.
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“The Dirty Squad – Operation Spanner” is only a partly-fictional fabricated story about a fabricated case as a cover for the actual horrific operation that had been undertaken. Nothing more.
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“Everywhere I go I see evidence of people swirling around in the cesspool of their own making. Why do homosexuals freely engage in sodomy and other obnoxious sexual practices knowing the dangers involved?” – James Anderton, 1986 (Manchester Police Chief)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Anderton#Views_on_morality
The DIRTY? Squad
“With prostate cancer rates continuing to climb, we are forced to face sexual taboos. Men and woman can learn prostrate health practices so the man does not end up on the surgeons table and have to face cruel radiation therapy and the even the worse chemotherapy. It is time to stop being squeamish about the prostate sexual gland and its access canal the anus.
Why do you think there is a taboo around prostate massage?
There are strong taboos around prostate massage because there are incredibly strong taboos against anal sex. It was just too much for our early religious leaders to see everything about the human body being God endowed and thus a source of pleasure and sexual health. Some part of the body had to be considered dirty when in fact nothing is dirty with God except sexual violence.
Sex to the early Americans was in the domain of the Devil so you can imagine how that legacy carries on as a taboo against anything and everything anal. Even desire was considered impure and corrupting by many people in the past. The Puritans took God’s rules about sex to an extreme; including forbidding most sexual activities between husbands and wives. It was actually forbidden for sex to be enjoyable. They considered the enjoyment of sex to be a sinful expression of lust, even amongst married couples.
Every part of the body enjoys therapeutic touch. Sexual touch is an intense extension of therapeutic touch meaning frequent sex is healthy. Because sex itself is a health promoting activity sexual aids that bring more pleasure, ease and intensity to the sexual act should be thought of as helpful. There are many frontiers for couples to explore with their sexualities. Going deep into the art of pleasure is evolutionary for our personalities and souls but with prostate massage, we are actually dealing with medicine and the health of the prostate and the avoidance of prostate cancer.
https://drsircus.com/general/breaking-prostrate-taboos/
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Trash this if you want Cathy – it’s off-topic anyway. If you do, can you please also trash my twqo comments under the Charlie Lyne interview please -(I got the wrong end of the stick).
Apologies for all the inconvenience – Best wishes1
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I dont know why the system made me approve this one, but i have
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Thanks Cathy – It is a very popular doctor’s opinion nevertheless, a bit off topic, but relevant to the puritanical mindset of Christian fundamentalists., but at the same time, not a suitable subject whilst you are trying to eat. Take care!
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hi grimstock, can you tell me where those commetns you want binned are? on this post?
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Hi Cathy, It’s all covered now – no need to worry. Everything is fine.
Many thanks!
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The two murders mentioned on page 163 may well have been two of the “early deaths” statistics of the operation:
https://forum.davidicke.com/showpost.php?p=1063052988&postcount=326
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It would certainly require a special breed of detective in order to ascertain what a dying man had said or had not said with their final breath.
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“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.” ― C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology (Making of Modern Theology)
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Legislation guidance now overrules Spanner Case ruling, and all acts of BDSM are once more pefectly legal provided no serious injury is caused/ participants are over 18 and consenting.
https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/obscene-publications
However, although this may take the heat and the interest off the Spanner Case for the time being, it does not alter the facts of the Operation.
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Except for the fact there is a “get out” clause that states that actual bodily harm as in the Spanner case is still outlawed. So nothing really has changed at all, since “actual bodily harm” is still a questionable factor.
(Quote)
“Where a person consents to an activity, as a matter of law such consent will not amount to a defence to assault occasioning actual bodily harm or worse: R v Brown and others [1994] 1 AC 212. Accordingly, publications which show or depict the infliction of serious harm may be considered to be obscene publications because they show criminal assault notwithstanding the consent of the victim. This includes dismemberment and graphic mutilation. It includes asphyxiation causing unconsciousness, which is more than transient and trifling, and given its danger is serious.
Harm should be assessed applying contemporary social standards. It need not be permanent, long-lasting, dangerous or mean that the victim requires treatment. Regard must be had to the effect upon, and circumstances of, the victim.”
So actually it does not overrule the case at all. My apologies!
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The Spanner Investigation had followed an “inquiry” into adverts in gay magazines.
“It is understood the investigation, one of the largest by the obscene
publications squad, was launched following an inquiry into advertisements
in homosexual magazines.”
https://www.heraldscotland.com/default_content/11924223.obscenity-inquiry-leads-to-16-arrests/
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See also: https://forum.davidicke.com/showpost.php?p=1063058472&postcount=386
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The “Inquiry into” gay magazines had been part of Operation Spanner
Page 85, “Intimate Enemies: Moral Panics in Contemporary Great Britain”
By Philip Jenkins
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JQQWfqtES5MC&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&dq=operation+spanner&source=bl&ots=1O4nTde-e1&sig=wDz-9uigKDW18hlpArVegYRaC4U&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjP-Ozw8bDWAhXJCsAKHY7DAJg4FBDoAQgvMAE#v=onepage&q=operation%20spanner&f=false
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Please also see the Sean Gabb video above – gay dating magazines had been used to contact the Spannermen covertly.
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If consent is no defence to a charge of assault, then neither may it constitute an offence for the same act(s). If consent is deemed to be invalid, then the victim of assault cannot be guilty of “aiding and abetting assault upon the self”.
Without any valid consent, one may only endure an assault and cannot “aid and abet” in any way.
Consent is either of relevance or not, in my opinion.
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By careful police misrepresentaiton of a few hours of specially and carefully edited video tape, involving removal of all indications of consensual sexual acts, the police had presented a distorted image of the acts before the court, claiming that the acts were acts of violence, rather than consensual SM, and thus enabling criminal assault charges to be brought successfully, and completely out of context from what had originally been depicted in the videos.
See under “Sex and Violence” section,
Sadomasochism: Powerful Pleasures
edited by Peggy J. Kleinplatz, Charles Mose
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AYvFBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT144&lpg=PT144&dq=operation+spanner&source=bl&ots=tOLMH7ZlBt&sig=ACfU3U1_H890OnHKjJWpeBZtjCRMf6ozrA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiZ7-qmxZHhAhWxRxUIHVejCNI4PBDoATABegQICRAB#v=onepage&q=operation%20spanner&f=false
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See also:
https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/flare/Online/default.asp?doWork::WScontent::loadArticle=Load&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::article_id=D56C2B3D-00F8-413C-B4F2-746A137C57A8&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=2904DC53-31A6-4E07-9B71-BB8B94267975
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Sorry – link has copied wrongly, should be:
https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/flare/Online/default.asp?doWork::WScontent::loadArticle=Load&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::article_id=D56C2B3D-00F8-413C-B4F2-746A137C57A8&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=2904DC53-31A6-4E07-9B71-BB8B94267975
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Link fails each time – so look for:
Buy tickets for Operation Spanner: Then and Now BFI Flare: London
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The “nationwide ring” of 82 potential defendants (Page 165) had included Alan Oversby (aka Mr. Sebastian) who was given a conditional discharge = 81 (9×9 = 3x3x3x3), 66 of whom were composed of the ID’s of deceased “suicide” victims, leaving 15 spannermen to be sentenced. None of the 66 were connected or knew any spannermen at all. The 16 raids (650+16=666 total raids), with 15 sentenced, and 9 incarcerations (of any arrested) totalling 369 months total had been decided prior to 1983. The court was merely fulfilling their obligations to the crown through the jailings (as part of a lock/seal/curse upon the gay men, in my opinion:
https://forum.davidicke.com/showpost.php?p=1063061261&postcount=402
https://forum.davidicke.com/showpost.php?p=1063061259&postcount=401
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Correction: – 1 of the 66 canonical “suicide” victims (who died within a few months of; and who had been present with his car at the address in Harford, Dyfed, during the covert intrusion by Bryn Alyn security in the early hours sometime in early December 1983;) knew Mr. Anderson, but not the other Spannermen.
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The Spannermen were mostly genuinely unaware their activities were illegal:
“Incredible as it may seem to those who have grown up post-Spanner, there was a once-upon-a-time golden age when the prevailing assumption was that pain, inflicted consensually and in pursuit of mutually satisfying erotic outcomes was permissible. That was not an unreasonable point of view. After all, you could – you may still – beat an opponent senseless in a boxing ring and, providing all is done in accordance with the rules, and consensually, there is no problem.”
“And that is exactly what 16 gay men did when, in December 1990, the courts handed down sentences ranging from fines to up to four and a half years in prison apiece. Some later had their sentences reduced on appeal: but this was a one-off discount, based on the fact that for the most part, participants were genuinely unaware that their actions were illegal. We have been warned, and should expect little leniency in future.”
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/12/government-finally-ready-legalise-bdsm
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/im-not-a-sadistic-person-i-dont-do-serious-harm-1358133.html
30. In Johnson v. Youden [1950] 1 K.B. 544, Lord Goddard C.J. said: “Before a person can be convicted of aiding and abetting the commission of an offence he must at least know the essential matters which constitute the principal offence.” This statement of principle was subsequently approved by the House of Lords in two cases: Churchill [1967] 2 A.C. 224 and Maxwell [1978] 1 WLR 1350.
http://www.mondaq.com/uk/x/136506/Crime/Secondary+Liability+In+The+Criminal+Law
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So leniency under acts of aiding and abetting should have perhaps been applied by the police or the courts PRIOR to conviction. I believe the courts may also have misunderstood the actions involved in these well-prepared acts of S/M; as they are uniquely different to “recognised” acts of violence due to the agreements and authorisations made by all parties in these “joint ventures” prior to enactment in my opinion – and to which I am therefore led to believe that both men participating were equally both victims and perpetrators, and perhaps may therefore have been eligible for such leniency as merely aiding and abetting each other during genuinely unrecognised offences.
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Consensual S/M sessions are merely re-enactments of previously imagined assaults, and in my opinion should therefore never be prosecuted as assaults – (they are no different to a filmmaker re-enacting a victimless crime on film).
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They may be more or less lifelike according to personal choice, but the realness of the interaction is dependent upon the level of fantasy and imagination afforded it without actually becoming a reality in any sense; – and very much as with a recreation of a crime on film as it affects the viewer, but with the added sensuality of physical involvement to a pre-determined level.
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Even on Crimewatch UK, scenes of breaking and entering, murder, and assaults have often been recreated to a greater or lesser degree of realness. So it is with S/M, where the agreed levels of reality have also been decided prior to the enactment. It is merely theatre that allows an otherwise unattainable experience to take place in safety.
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Goodness me! The book is not true. – “Operation Spanner was a police investigation into same-sex male sadomasochism across the United Kingdom in the late 1980s.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Spanner
I’ll give that 5/10
Perhaps they have forgotten about the first part?
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However, the use of the word “investigation” is contextually misleading in that statement.
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“”Outrages”, which argues that the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 led to a turn against consensual sex between men and an increase in executions for sodomy, was published in the UK on 20 May. Wolf has already acknowledged that the book contains two errors, after an on-air challenge on BBC Radio 3 during which the writer and broadcaster Matthew Sweet told her that she had misunderstood the term “death recorded” in historical records as signifying an execution. In fact it denotes the opposite, Sweet pointed out, highlighting that a teenager she said had been “actually executed for sodomy” in 1859 was paroled two years after being convicted. Wolf said last month that she had thanked Sweet for highlighting the mistakes, and was correcting future editions.”
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/14/naomi-wolf-faces-new-questions-as-us-publisher-postpones-latest-book
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(Please note that for an uncensored version of this book, you will have to grab one of the existing copies whilst there are some still available)
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Please also see:
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/naomi-wolf-outrages-gay-rights-book-error-a8979646.html
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COGNITIVE BIAS – THE “JUST WORLD” FALLACY:
https://www.davidicke.com/article/547479/just-world-fallacy-people-bash-assange-defend-power
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“Operation Spanner Dissected” has now today been removed from Google’s “Operation Spanner” listings. However, it still remains available under other Google listings.
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What!
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It’s now been reinstated on page 6 (should be back to page 2 within a couple of days).
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Operation Spanner on Google:
https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=spanner+operation&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
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MANUFACTURING NORMALITY by Caitlin Johnstone:
“And this is why the propaganda machine’s ability to manufacture normality is so powerful: by controlling what we all see as normal, they are able to spin any attempt to deviate from that false image of normality as abnormal. Humans are conditioned to see safety in normality; if patterns are constant and sustained we feel like we can relax, if patterns are disrupted we feel under threat. For this reason even something so clearly evil and deranged as the US forever war can be spun as normal and therefore safe, and any attempt to end it can be spun as abnormal and therefore unsafe.”
https://www.davidicke.com/article/549745/manufacturing-normality
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Please now use “Spanner Operation” as search request instead of “Operation Spanner”on Google search to access “Operation Spanner Dissected” and “The Story behind Operation Spanner” (due to shadow banning on Google), or use links in the comments above. Thank you.
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“If there is one thing people do not want to hear, it is the truth.” – Jordan Maxwell
The Control System Exposed.
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‘Vicarious Kinks’ – Raj Persaud in conversation with Ummni Khan on her book.
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“A whole branch of science turns out to be fake” – by Jon Rappaport.
https://www.davidicke.com/article/559187/whole-branch-science-turns-fake
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JUST CASES: Episode 6: Is S&M sex illegal? (R v Brown)
“– about 80 potential defendants”
“– about 60 who were not charged”
https://www.justcasespodcast.com/episode-6-is-sm-sex-illegal
For my personal opinion,please also refer to penultimate paragraph here:
https://forum.davidicke.com/showpost.php?p=1063061261&postcount=402:
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However, as the law stands at the moment in the UK, the answer to the posed question is ” Yes, No, and maybe – (mostly due to the negative impacts of the R v Brown ruling).
Please refer to the Myles Jackman explanation at around 9.30 into the video.
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“Your body is (a commercial asset) traded on the Stock Exchange. If it gets damaged, somebody has to pay” (US)
Jordan Maxwell – Our Hidden Creators
(From around 1.10.00 to 1.20.00 of the video)
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They OWN you.
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Michael Tsarion, telling it how it really is!
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As you may have already suspected, I did not buy the book
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” •Is this the end of contact sports?”
Click to access livingsben.pdf
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Operation Spanner – The Roland Jaggard Interview (Part 1)
Parts 2 and 3 may be obtained from the same page.
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Roland Jaggard’s sentencing had been handed down via 3 x 12 months for three sentences.(Refer to Part 3 of the video). However, this had not been to run concurrently (as would be the norm) , but consecutively, so he had been sentenced to 3 years.
The reason for this additional imposition was twofold – firstly to render him a “victim” of the ritual/ operation to enable the figure of 111 victims to be achieved.
https://forum.davidicke.com/showpost.php?p=1063061261&postcount=402
Secondly, to satisfy the requirement for sentencing totals of 369 months in order to complete and seal the ritual by the court. The sentencing statistics (in months) – together with full gematria reduction ( = 639963) of those numbers (along with three sacrificial violent deaths) had been used as a lock/seal and also a curse upon all victims of the ritual / operation on behalf of the Court/ Crown.
The numbers required for this task had been 3,6, 9 and 45 (36+9=45)
https://forum.davidicke.com/showpost.php?p=1063058753&postcount=391
https://forum.davidicke.com/showpost.php?p=1063059598&postcount=396
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36 + 9 signifies code 3 (3) + code 9 sacrificial victims (33 deaths) = 36 + 9 incarcerations = 45 (when added to code 6 sacrificial victims (66) = 111
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In my opinion.
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—-Closure of the 777 ritual using full gematria reduction of the total sentencing in months (639963) by the Crown (code 3) : 777/777/777 – 33/33/33 – 777/777/777
https://forum.davidicke.com/showpost.php?p=1063059598&postcount=396
(please refer to final lines)
— Sign-off / Salutation of the ritual by the Crown *(code3) using code 3 victim statistics only:
9 incarcerated + 3 sacrificial deaths / (x code 3) = 93/93/93
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/93_(Thelema)
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The first two pages of the book alone contain mostly fabricated and misleading / fictional information, as the raid in Bolton had occurred in the early 1980’s when some of the Spannermen tapes (along with others) had been seized by Manchester Police during another matter, and later returned to the owner as permissible, with no involvement of the Obscene Publications Branch on that occasion.
https://www.met.police.uk/SysSiteAssets/foi-media/metropolitan-police/disclosure_2018/august_2018/information-rights-unit—information-on-operation-spanner
The first Spannermen tape had been solicited by the OPB from a Spannerman in Wales via an anonymous box numbered advert they had placed in “Gay Galaxy” magazine in 1984, requesting the exchange of extreme SM videos.
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However, code 9 of the ritual/operation could not be undertaken until the completion of code 6, so the matter had been shelved for 3 years.
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All details concerning the Bolton address/ defendant (and his legal battles) appear to have been removed from Google during the past 12 months, although I believe he had died somewhere around ten or more years ago.
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If anyone has any questions for me alone, then would they please use the reply button underneath a/the relevant comment, and NOT the reply box at bottom of page in order for the question(s) to be redirected to the right person. Many thanks in anticipation!
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DR. JOAN COLEMAN’S “R.A.I.N.S” LIST – (2018 update)
(Ritual Abuse Information Network & Support) –
In order to be placed on the list, each person had to be named to Dr Coleman by at least two independent witnesses.
“MICHAEL HAMES – 08.07.07 Former Detective Superintendent with New Scotland Yard (NSY) Obscene Publications Unit, is in group but only expected to attend important ceremonies. Friendly with JLF. (Was involved in Operation Spanner. Appeared in several TV programmes, Dispatches “Beyond Belief” (1992) Brass Eye’s “Paedogeddon” (2001) & Dark Side of Porn’s “Does Snuff Exist?” (2006).”
https://spidercatweb.blog/joan-colemans-r-a-i-n-s-list
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https://www.davidicke.com/article/569359/david-icke-celebrate-uniqueness-walk-away-herd-spoken-pandemic-prophetic
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A common pitfall intentionally diverting your attention from the real truth of Operation Spanner is through the repeated reference to the Spanner case as being the operation in entirety, whilst even together with the investigation of that case it forms in totality only a small part of the operation on the whole, and at the same time being of necessary, but small relevance to the operation. It was purposely a “show” trial – in all senses of the word.
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You may find further relevant information in Operation Spanner Dissected, which has today been removed altogether from all “Operation Spanner” listings on google.
https://cathyfox.wordpress.com/2018/02/20/operation-spanner-dissected-by-grimstock/
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“Dr. Matt Lodder on Operation Spanner – The Fireside Chat Series”
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For my latest research on Spanner, please refer to https://grimstock66.com/
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